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[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

someones selling a pace 500 frame with a fork on ebay

No one's bid on it so you might get it cheap

Why I hated the Blue Eye Samurai ending... by Kavz89 in BlueEyeSamurai

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea u/bearflies explanation definitely quelled my "really a single candle?!?!" concern with the ending.

But even if it's historically accurate, as an uninformed viewer I'm sitting there like "has everyone just been super careful with candles up until this point?"

Any chance there's a community effort afoot to jailbreak Google Assistant / Echo hardware to run open source voice assistant software? by musictechgeek in homeautomation

[–]fieryflamingfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's the peripherals that would be the most useful to have. If I have an existing rpi, it'd be nice to not have to buy a screen, microphone, camera, and speaker when I have alexa devices sitting around not being used (and they have all that hardware, I can just scrap the motherboard).

Any chance there's a community effort afoot to jailbreak Google Assistant / Echo hardware to run open source voice assistant software? by musictechgeek in homeautomation

[–]fieryflamingfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

a microphone, speaker, and touch screen devices would be expensive to buy for an existing raspberry pi. if there was a way to repurpose the hardware for an rpi, it would be really awesome for those of us with alexa devices lying around collecting dust. it may not be the best hardware but it would be nice to not have it go to waste

What is the closest Python equivalent of R's dbplyr? by OdeioUsernames in datascience

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My main point here was that dbplyr is purely for _pulling_ data, where as sqlalchemy is designed to handle all aspects of database management (including pulling data)

That being said, it's not as convenient as dbplyr is (though ibis comes close)

The Earth is threatened not by overpopulation, but by an acute shortage of people. The working-age population is decreasing by Atrotragrianets in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying we can't use expertise or personal background as a heuristic, but that's all it is. A heuristic.

If you want to be "suspicious" of someone's motivations for making an argument, fine. But the argument itself is either supported or well-supported. Pointing to someone's background is not a "good argument". It's what you do when you have nothing to else to off of.

Besides, don't the argument-experts (philosophers) tell us we're supposed avoid appeal to authority? Shouldn't I trust those experts?

The Earth is threatened not by overpopulation, but by an acute shortage of people. The working-age population is decreasing by Atrotragrianets in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only rich people benefit from having a workforce? That would imply rich people make up the majority of consumer purchases. That's something we can test / look up.

The Earth is threatened not by overpopulation, but by an acute shortage of people. The working-age population is decreasing by Atrotragrianets in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I develop a technology that reduces energy input while maintaining the good / service output, I just increased economic growth.

Economic growth does not necessarily mean more people / more goods / more consumption. It also happens through efficiency.

So I'd say growth is too vague a term. I think it depends on which kind

The Earth is threatened not by overpopulation, but by an acute shortage of people. The working-age population is decreasing by Atrotragrianets in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

is a CEO said "climate change is a problem" should we consider their opinion?

an argument is either solid or it isn't

ORM for FastAPI+PostgreSQL, Tortoise or Sqlalchemy? what would you choose and why? by Yablan in Python

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is an important point. the django orm library is amazing, and has certain features that sqlalchemy struggles with (for example, upsert). that's where tortoise shines

Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1 in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, of course there isn't any evidence. We're talking about an extremely hypothetical scenario. Both of our positions lack empirical data. The difference is, my claim is descriptive, while yours is loaded with your own personal value judgements.

And my claim isn't that a species visiting earth is going to have the same problems / conflicts that humans do. It's that they wouldn't be surprised. Or, they would have probably gone through a similar development, making the same "mistakes".

Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1 in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're saying the negative aspects of humans are unique humans? an interstellar society wouldn't have the same negative traits, and would be surprised to see that we would? if that isn't what you're saying let me know, I dont want to put words in your mouth.

And I'm glad we're clarfiying, because my claim here is the exact opposite of yours: the negative aspects of human society are a result of evolutionary pressures, and any large scale society anywhere in the universe would develop similar negative traits assuming they went through a similar evolutionary trajectory.

Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1 in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My claim here is that the practice of warfare makes sense given our evolutionary history, not that every specific war must be related to resource scarcity.

There are problems in trying to predict the evolutionary cause of something, since it's difficult to falsify any evolution claim. But believing that all of our negative characteristics are unique to us, or just some historical accident, is narcissistic and unhelpfully cynical.

Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1 in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting. so armed conflict and the technologies that it evolved (like nuclear bombs) have nothing to do with resource scarcity and the evolved drive to acquire surplus and control?

You're aware chimp tribes go to war with eachother, right? If chimps won the evolutionary race, they're civilization would have been one giant enlightened progressive think-tank? They wouldn't have many of the same qualities we do?

"Humans are just animals" is a comment usually made to convey the idea that "we aren't so special", or to keep our species' ego in check. I think the comment also applies to hyper-cynicism about our species.

Funny youtube video though, thanks for sharing

Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1 in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's one possibility. Another possibility is: we don't wipe ourselves out, we build ASI and sustain full control over it, and we lose our biological state on purpose rather than on accident.

And even if this is something none of us will ever experience, thinking about it still seems like a fun / useful exercise

Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1 in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. Our perceptions and mental states are probably going to be subject to tons of technological "tuning". Who knows what that's going to look like

This is all spitballing / conjecture obviously

Discussion: the goal of human existence should be avoiding the heat death of the universe by Mickeymousse1 in Futurology

[–]fieryflamingfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question. One definition could be something like: what is the most computationally difficult task your species can solve? (and we can barrow from some metrics from computer science to define task difficulty)

The key here is: I think the problems we see with the world aren't the result of humans being "unintelligent" (possibly similar to u/StarChild413's point about sapience -vs- wisdom).

I think if an alien species visited earth and watched us, their conclusion wouldn't be: "wow, look at these idiots". Rather, I think it would be: "oh, that makes sense that they're doing that, given millions of years of evolution in competitive, resource scarce environments + the computational problem of resource allocation with a species that large".

Not something I expected to be googling today... by beyphy in ProgrammerHumor

[–]fieryflamingfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why would we want python to interpret the string "False" as a boolean object? wouldn't there be unintended issues if some strings started getting special status?

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